In a message dated 11/15/01 8:57:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >> This quote has bothered me every time I've heard it over the years,
>> considering the discrepancy in distance between the Moon and >the stars. >> Does it bother anyone else? Or am I just being too picky? >> Personally, I treat quotes like this in the same way I handle out-dated sci-fi. I ignore the 'bad' science, or 'proven-wrong' science and enjoy the quaint. Most of Niven and Heinlein's books are outdated in one way or another by now, and yet they still make for fascinating sci-fi conceptually. Yet a bad Star Trek episode can get me really annoyed ;) If a writer wasn't aware of 2001 technology in the 1950's and '60's, it's fine -- no one expects them to be psychic, after all. But a modern-day writer that can't get their facts straight (in modern-day parlance) I find it highly annoying. I'm willing to give a writer the benefit of the doubt for creative license -- to a point. But get basic facts or definitions wrong and the love affair is over ;) Jon
